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Since the release of ES3, the CRX Server comes integrated with the LiveCycle Document Services.(NOTE: SA Installer should be run on an existing LiveCycle Document Services Installation in order to get the benefits of CRX Server and Correspondence Management Solution)

There are times when a restart of the CRX Server is required due to some changes in configuration/settings or issues related to bundle activation.
Since the wars are bundled inside the core ear, the whole of JBoss server instance needs to be restarted to get things done.
This ultimately consumes time and things on the doc-services side also get blocked due to some task pending at CRX end.

Let’s handle the two issues separately,

i. Issues related to Bundle Activation

There is an easy way out where one can just shutdown the CRX server and Restart it again without interfering with the LiveCycle Server Instance.

Go to, http://localhost:8080/lc/system/console/vmstat (Snapshot at the end of the post)
It has two buttons,
a. Restart – Clicking on this will restart all the bundles and the framework.
b. Stop – Clicking on this will stop all the bundles and the framework.
In order to start the framework and the bundles, Just refresh the browser or hit the above mentioned URL again.
The LiveCycle services running under the Jboss server instance won’t be affected at all.

The above settings solves the issue of Bundle Activation because it restarts CRX LaunchPad. But it doesn’t start the whole of CRX due to which changes in repository.xml or bootstrap.properties don’t get reflected.

For such changes to get reflected, the best way is to re-deploy the CRX war.
JBoss provides a seamless way of doing that through JMX Console.
a. Go to http://localhost:8080/jmx-console. (For more information on JMX-Console handling I’ll write a separate blog post)
b . Once inside JMX-Console, search for jboss.web.deployment section.
c. Click on the link named war=/crx.
d. Now you can stop and start the war by clicking on the respective “Invoke” buttons to get the settings and configuration reflected. This won’t affect the other LiveCycle Document Services running in parallel.